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When you hear "brain-computer interface," you probably picture surgery, wires and a chip in your head. Now picture something quieter. No implant. No incision. Just sound waves directed at the brain.

To the naked eye, Annie Kathuria’s experiments look a bit like tiny tufts of cotton floating in pink Petri dishes. These unassuming orbs are clusters of millions of human brain cells called brain ...

While Elon Musk’s Neuralink likes to say it’s “pioneering” brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), China’s BCI industry is already quietly moving from research to scale. A new wave of startups is racing to ...

Michigan Medicine opened the Brain-Computer Interface Clinic — one of the first of its kind in the nation — on Dec. 16, 2025 to provide neurological assessments for patients with speech and motor ...

Abstract: Abstract—Interventional brain–computer interfaces represent a promising approach for neural signal acquisition by placing electrodes within cerebral blood vessels, offering superior signal ...

OpenAI is continuing its push into healthcare by investing in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup co-founded by its CEO, Sam Altman. Merge Labs is a new competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, ...

OpenAI has become the lead investor in Merge Labs, a new brain-computer interface research lab co-founded by Sam Altman that just raised around $250 million USD in seed funding Merge Labs is ...

OpenAI Group PBC has invested in Merge Labs Inc., a startup developing hardware that will enable users to control computers with their thoughts. Merge Labs is building a brain-computer interface, or ...

OpenAI (OPENAI) announced on Thursday that it has invested in brain computer interface startup Merge Labs, which includes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as an investor. Brain computer interfaces, or BCIs, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI -- One of the first brain-computer interface clinics in the country has opened in Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Health opened its clinic to patients with severe motor and speech ...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is shifting into high gear for 2026 as the company’s co-founder touts changes to the brain-computer interface devices' production. Writing on his social media platform X, Musk ...